Chris' Movie Questions: My MYSTIC RIVER Review

[saucycobblers]

I loved that little dog too.

Everyone did! My favourite bit was when Jack Nicholson was avoiding stepping on the cracks in the pavement, so Verdel did the same! So sweet!

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Ok thanks everyone...

Ok next....Seven aka Se7en....Gwyneth Paltrow, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman....David Fincher directs..

[vkm91941]

Seven.  Incredibly Intense film.  VERY graphically violent almost gratutiously so.  Morgan Freeman is his usual wonderful self, a very young Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow are believable, Kevin Spacey is scarier than Sir Anthony as Hanibal Lecter.  Major twist at the end that I did not see coming. Sparsely filmed, almost noir quality.  Moody, brooding, dark

Not a film for those with a weak heart or stomach.  Almost too much for me.

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Kevin Spacey is scarier than Sir Anthony as Hanibal Lecter.  

Really?  Wow...

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I wonder if Zodiac is going to be the same...also a David Fincher Film...

The Silence of the Lambs was a very gritty, dark, moody and at times gratuitous film but to me it had a certain level of nobility to it...if that makes sense..

It was horror at its finest but was also very artistic and VERY well made.  To me it was a noble, powerful and almost beautiful film...ya know? 

Ok so you can commit to the psych ward now...

[David In Indy]

Chris -

I love Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, but I didn't like Se7en.

It is a deeply distrubing movie and very disgusting. 

Many people liked this movie... I wasn't one of them.

[chefjudy]

  I saw Se7en and then almost immediately after that, The Usual Suspects - needless to say Kevin Spacey was awesome in both!  and both had surprise endings which just blew me away(especially The Usual Suspects) - I am a big fan of suspense/thriller movies and both of these were incredible - dare I say the suspense was almost palpable - Se7en is much darker and intense, but the Usual Suspects was so clever and and almost lighthearted that although you never asked about it, I felt compelled to include it with my commentary on Se7en since they both have Spacey in them - can't go wrong with either of them......................

[littleguitar]

I like Seven a lot, I agree with Vic's statement one hundred percent (though, the gore wasn't too much for me).  Kevin Spacey's performance is chilling.

From what I hear of Zodiac, Chris, it's supposed to be very different from both Seven (despite the serial killer theme) and Fight Club.  They say this film is a different move for Fincher all together...

I wanted to echo Judy's recommendation though, The Usual Suspects is a very good movie, you should see it if you haven't.  Kevin Spacey is brilliant and I don't know anyone who wasn't thrown for a loop (in a good way) by the ending.  This is one of my all time favorite movies 

[moremojo]

Ok I merged all my threads asking about movies into one....so I'm just gonna change the subject everytime I have a question and bump it to the top...

Ok so my next movie is The Color Purple....Steven Spielberg....1985....one of the few that goes in with a leading number of Oscar noms and leaves with zip....good?

I have to honestly report that I think The Color Purple is a bad film. It is bad in that director Steven Spielberg's excessive sentimentality betrays the seriousness of the subject matter. The film also sugar-coats the story's element of lesbianism, and elides it in an attempt to pander to the audience's assumed middlebrow tastes. Spielberg's technical expertise and a solid, talented cast fail to counterbalance the overly sentimental treatment of what remains, at its heart, a powerful story.

Scott

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Thanks everyone...

Ok you wanna hear something really strange...I never saw The Sixth Sense...at least not all the way through...